6 Time Management & Productivity Tips from Brian Tracy

Hello! Hope you were able to spend a restful long weekend with your loved ones.

Because it’s weeks away before June (pasukan na naman), let me share with you my kids’ night-before-school day routine and how this can help you become more productive too.

Every night after their evening bath, my son and daughter will go to their cabinets and pull out their uniforms, sando, underwear, hanky and socks.

They will carefully hang the uniform on a chair’s headrest, or some place where it won’t get all wrinkled, and put all the other stuff beside it, including their shoes and school IDs.

Once everything is prepared, that’s the only time they’ll go to bed.

BIG WIN ROUTINE

According to Robin Sharma, a leadership expert and best-selling author, when he studied the creative lives of massively productive people like Stephen King, John Grisham and Thomas Edison, he discovered they follow strict daily routines. (i.e., when they would get up, when they would start work, when they would exercise and when they would relax).

According to him, “Peak productivity’s not about luck. It’s about devotion.”

I have practiced the same routine when I was in elementary and doing so made me:

sleep more soundly because my mind doesn’t have to subconsciously worry about the things I need to bring the next day (prepared na e!)

I wake up feeling refreshed because my body is well-rested.

energized. There’s nothing like a good night’s sleep

And the bonus? I have at least 5 to 10 more minutes — sure na hindi ako late!

I did not realize it then, but preparing in advance has been one of my secrets in becoming organised & productive.

Preparing in advance is also one of the 6 Time Management Tips from thought leader and professional speaker Brian Tracy on how you can increase productivity and improve your organisational skills.

Here are two more:

Schedule Your Time.

By planning out your day, week and month gives you the feeling of being in control of your life. You have a clear and direct path on what you need to do and when you want it achieved.

Did you know that Bo Sanchez plans out his YEAR? And this is one of his secrets why he seems to be able to do ‘everything’.

He’s in charge.He’s in control.He schedules his time.He is productive.

2. Start Early.

“To increase productivity, start your day early. The more time you take to sit, think, and plan, the better organised you will be in every area of your life.

In the biographies and autobiographies of successful men and women, almost all of them have one thing in common. They developed great organisational skills and the habit of going to bed at a reasonable hour and rising early.”

Many successful people arise before sunrise and this buys them more time to think, meditate and plan for the coming day.